Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
miscellaneous.

AT a late meeting of the delegates of the
various colleges in the Slate, he'd at To-
pelca. he following judges were selected
to Cfficlate at the contest of the State Ora
torical Association to be held at Baldwin
on the second Friday in February: Judge
E. T. Foster, of Topeka; Rev. C. l.. Thomp-
son, OF Kansas City; Hon. j. K. Burton, If
Abilene. Alterpatcs, Prof Gladen burg, OF
Midland Z University; Judge w. A. johnson,
of the Supreme Court; Hon. ID. w. Wilder,
of Hiawatha; Hon. Z. b. Murdoch, of FL
Dorado; w. L. Simons, of Parsons; Chan
ce!Ior Everest, of Garfield University, and
Colonel Mann, of Kansas City.
A COUPLE of sharpers are reported to be
travelling through portions of the State
who have q new swindling scheme. One
OF them claims to be gathering stock sta
tisuics while the other has remonstrance
against high license. Their object is TO
secure signatures to papers which after
wards turn p as promissory notes.
FRED BURKETT recently shot himself dead
at Kingman. Although but nineteen years
of age the cause OF the deed was dissipa-
ton, b ; having been on protracted spree
KELLY & LIsLE, of Leavenworth, have
been awarded the contract for furnishing
the army $1,000 pounds of choice family
hour al s2.65 per 100, and 100000 pounds OF
issue -four at g. II per 100
y CONVICT is at present in the rcaiten-
tary, who has u record as public SER
Vaut. As a boy he served term III the
New York reform school He then went
to Sings for two years for stealing.
Then he was sent to the Pennsyivapia peni-
ten larry. He afterward served terms SUI
cessvely in the Ohio penitentIary, the
Michigan States prison and the Southern
Indiana penitentiary, from which last
named place he drifted into the Joliet
prison. OF Illinois, serving his time, and
then came to Kan Ias, where his industry
r1n
Kansas pcnitentiary, where he is now Dig
ging coal for the State.
A SUGAR company has been organized at
Ell Dorado with capital stock of S150,OJ0.
The percentage of mortgage foreclosures
in Kansas the past year has been much
less than in any other State in the West.
THE first colored commercial traveller
that ever appeared in Kansas is now tray
cling over the State.
FARMERS in vriaous parts of the State
consider the apple crop to be more profit
able than either wheat or corn.
IT is estimated that fully two-thirds of
the Immigration to Kansas this year went
to the southwestern part Of the Stale.
IT is said by the knowing ones that the
valuable deposits of potter's clay i'll various
parts of the State Will be q mine OF wealth
10 owners.
The new canning factory at Garnett put
nm this season 3oJ cases OF peas, 900 cases
cases of tomatoes. These would make
TWENTY-FIVE carloads, worth at railing prices
81, 90.
JoHx GREEN. an old soldier ana member
OF the home, was killed near Leavenworth
the other night by u train on tue RAPID
Transit road.
Ir is stated that sweeping reduction in
freight rates has been male between Nor
tcnvIlle and Kansas City. There Is re-
duction of nine dollars per car on hogs,
eight dollars cattle, and similar cuts on
gra II and other merchandise.
The OF her day Joseph and Alfred Will
hanson. OF Edwardsyille- went rabbit hunt
ing, each carrying d shotgun The two
were separated and when a rabbit jump I'll
up before Joseph the eder brother pulled
the trigger ana tiled Alfred's hip wito
shot. The wounded young maa was re-
moved TO his home, where a physician
picked thirty shot from his hip. One OF
his hands was frIghtfuily shattered, and
amputatlon would probably be necessary
GRAN FORD County has 100 carp ponds
TIE State Historical Society has re-
ceived from John Brown, Jr., the gold
medal presented to his mother by French
Republicans in 1874 in commemoratlon OF
the services of the great A bolitionist. Ac-
companying the medal was the letter from
the committee of subscription dated Paris,
October u, 1874.
MRS. SoLT. Il religious enthusiast OF Law
renee, recently died after fasting four
weeks alleging that e was the Divine
command.
WHILE recently engaged in moving a
house at Atchison John Patterson was per-
haps fatally injured by. the house slipping |
from the props and falling upon him.
A COMPANY has been organized at AR
kansas City to manufacture printing and
book paper.